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Tony Romo’s admission that he’s been dealing with a rib injury has the NFL doing some investigating.

The rib injury wasn’t on the injury report going into last week’s matchup with the Chicago Bears, which could be a violation of league rules. Romo finally disclosed the injury, kind of offhandedly, after the team’s 41-28 victory in Chicago.

This isn’t the first time the NFL has done a double-take over Romo’s status. Last year, they investigated the team when Romo went down with a herniated disk in his back in Week 16, and it came out afterward that he had been dealing with undisclosed back issues for weeks before that.

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